It was late, a Tuesday, and Michael was working on a particularly boring spreadsheet. Then, the alert: "Request from Ashley Carter." He straightened, a genuine grin cracking his face. He felt a surge of energy, a sudden desire to rearrange his desk. Ashley Carter. The girl who used to call him "Nerdface" and hide his books.

He accepted the request without delay. He pictured her face, her surprise. He would carefully craft his posts to showcase his travels, his successful career, his perfect family. He practically rubbed his hands together. This was too good.

Emotion: jubilant

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.66 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.27

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion jubilant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 jubilant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the jubilant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the jubilant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.738
la0.707
!0.670
ecstatic0.547
excitedly0.539
Suppressed:
S-0.768
😞-0.485
ness-0.429
😔-0.376
😥-0.351